HE WAS ONLY 19 WHEN LANCE CORPORAL MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ OF FAIR HAVEN DIED IN ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN LAST DECEMBER. NOW AS HIS FAMILY STRUCKS TO COPE WITH -- STRUGGLES TO COPE WITH HIS DEATH ANOTHER LOSS. THE THEFT OF SOMETHING THAT WAS PRECIOUS TO THE SOLDIER THAT HE CARRIED WITH HIM UNTIL THE DAY HE DIED. TONIGHT HIS FAMILY IS HOPING IT WILL BE RECOVERED. A FAIR HAVEN BOY AND HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART JULIA ENGAGED JUST A YEAR BEFORE MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ WAS KILLED ON THE BATTLEFIELD. WE WOULD HAVE TALKS ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO HIM. AND HE WOULD ALWAYS TELL ME THAT HE WOULD NEVER WANT TO SEE ME SAD AND CRYING. ALWAYS HAD A SMILE ON HIS FACE AND JUST A GOOFY GOOD KID. HOLDING ON TO MEMORIES IS ALL THE FAMILY HAS. AND THEN YESTERDAY A PRECIOUS PART OF THOSE MEMORIES WAS STOLEN. MATTHEW'S TRUCK WAS BROKEN INTO IN A NEW BEDFORD PARKING LOT AND JULIA'S PURSE WAS TAKEN. INSIDE HIS IPHONE AND A BOMB SHE POEM SHE SHARED WITH HER LOST SOLDIER. HE HAD IT CUT OUT AND LAMINATE AND NEVER PARTED WITH IT,. IT WAS FOUND IN HIS HELMET THE DAY HE DIED. IT WAS WITH HIM ON HIS PERSON WHEN HE HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AND LIKE JULIA SAID, YOU CAN KEN P REPLICATE THE POEM BUT IT IS NOT THE ONE HE HAD PHYSICALLY ON HIM WHEN HE WAS KILLED SERVING HIS COUNTRY. THAT IS WHAT HE HAD WHEN HE WAS LEAVING. SO IT CONNECTS ME THE MOST TO HIM AND IT MAKES ME SMILE FOR HIM AND ME. THE SMASHED WINDOW CAN BE FIXED, BUT NOTHING CAN REPLACE THAT POEM, VALUELESS TO ANYONE, INHAVE YOUABLE TO HIS FAMILY -- INVALUABLE TO THE FAMILY IS IT WAS ENCOURAGING AND POSITIVE AND THAT IS WHAT HE WAS. THE FAMILY IS HOPING THAT